Tutty Fruity
Cast you mind back to the late eighties, Robby Coltrane new nothing of Hogworts and Emma Thompson was yet to be a luvy. John Burn (I think) wrote a great comedy drama "Tutty Fruity"for BBC Scotland. A story of scottish rock never had beens on the road in the "Majestics" with humour, drama and tragedy all with the thickest Glagow accents (to English ears)this side of the Clyde. Coltrane plays the young brother returned home after not making good in the USA. He is then inducted in to the band to take over from his dead brother (who looks uncannily like Coltrane). The acting is first class, the script even better. It re-pays many viewings if you could! VHS tape - no. DVD - no. They would fly of the shelves but no. What is the BBC doing, acting as agent for copy pirates? I think we have a suitable subject for "Word" to investigate.
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What he said.
Remember it well and fondly. Would love the opportunity to see it again.
I've got the book!
Count me in. Have great memories of it that I'd like to refresh.
Emma Thompson, Richard Wilson, Maurice Roeves and even Stuart McGugan as the drummer.
Richard Wilson ! I'd forgotten!
Kept talking in a rather camp accent to 'Miss Toner'. Who was she and where did she fit into things? Was she his secretary or something?
Senior moment alert.
God Yes - Miss Toner!!
For the first couple of series of One foot in the Grave I found myself willing him to say something about Miss Toner.....
As I recall wasn't he the owner of some kind of clothes shop and Miss Toner was an assistant?
No I was wrong - Courtesy of Wikipedia....
Eddie Clockerty was Wilson who managed the band and his secretary was Janice Toner.
A story of Scottish country
John Byrne followed it up (in 1990?) with the equally fantastic 'Your Cheating Heart' - Tilda Swinton, Eddi Reader. Exactly the same issue - no video, no DVD. All I have is a cassette of the soundtrack somewhere. I think you can't even buy the soundtrack on CD. Maybe John Byrne writes this into his contracts?
2 points
1 - It's Tutti Frutti http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092471/
2 - As I remember, the problem is securing the rights to use the songs in any further release.
I have the soundtrack album
somewhere about. Robbie Coltraine sings classic rock n roll - wots not to like?
BBC4 are trying their best to re-run it...
... according to this story from about a year ago:
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1315219.0.origin...
But the cast feel slighted that it's only a digital channel that want to show it. Poor darlings.
Oh and speaking of copy pirates, I downloaded a hookey copy of the series in six rather low-quality DivX files a couple of years back. Must be still out there somewhere..
Wasn't
Miss Toner Mr Clockerty's secretary and general assistant/dogsbody whose only line of dialogue seemed to be "Yes, Mr Clockerty"?
What I remember most about that series (apart from Wilson's pronounciation of the word 'Tonerrrr') is a scene where someone nicked an Arbroath smokie, which led to a smokie-stealing inquest.
Oh, and Stuart McGugan shouting "Noreen's dead choked!".
Great stuff, only ever
Great stuff, only ever repeated once on the BBC. I saw a stage adaptation in Edinburgh last year which was magic - The actors playing the band members had all learned enough to play some of the Rock and Roll tunes featured in the show, so when you saw "the Majestics" it was actually them playing. Fingers crossed for a DVD release.
Postman Pat
Just watched the epic scene where all the cast are transfixed by Postman Pat in Gaelic.Stone classic. "Your Cheating Heart" is not quite of the same standard but still worth a further view. Come on BBC!